By Jack Stollsteimer, Education Week The Obama administration recently announced its intention to ask Congress for significant changes to the little-loved No Child Left Behind law when it reauthorizes the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. Sadly, the administration’s “blueprint for reform” doesn’t mention the NCLB provisions that should concern every parent: those designed to stop [...]

By Leischen Stelter, Security Director News On the third anniversary of the Virginia Tech massacre that left 32 people dead, the government has issued a report on the prevalence and growth of violent attacks on the campuses of the nation’s institutions of higher education. The report, Campus Attacks: Targeted Violence Affecting Institutions Of Higher Education, [...]

By Brooke Brennan, The Rotunda Dave Cullen is a renowned journalist and well-known author. His most famous creation, his book Columbine, is a deep-seated portrayal of the murderers, the victims, and the community’s reaction to the Columbine High School shootings that took place on April 20, 1999. Due to his in-depth and highly intellectual analysis [...]

By Cheryl Paradis, Psy.D., Psychology Today It was a shock to hear about the shootings at the University of Alabama and the arrest of assistant biology professor Amy Bishop. As a forensic psychologist, I am always aware that I could be hurt by a defendant I am interviewing, but, like most people, I never imagine [...]

By Joel Griffin, SecurityInfoWatch.com As more and more incidents of workplace and school shootings dominate headlines across the country, security managers find themselves looking for ways to identify potential threats before they manifest themselves into acts of violence. Often the warning signs exhibited by those responsible for bringing terror to their local communities are not [...]

By David Swink, Psychology Today They’re not as popular as they were when I was a kid; those connect the dot paintings that untalented artists like myself, could buy and pretend we could draw. You would start at dot number one, drag your pencil to dot number 2, 3, and so on, and finally a [...]

By Roger Shuler, OpEdNews.com Coverage of the fatal shootings at the University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) so far has focused on the crime itself and the background of the alleged perpetrator, neuroscientist Amy Bishop. But we are seeing signs of a more complex story starting to emerge, one that includes a focus on the [...]

By Scott Jaschik, USA Today Tod W. Burke likes to use examples from current events to illustrate points in his courses. On Thursday, the criminal justice professor at Radford University discussed with students the arrest of a Tennessee teacher who has been charged with the attempted murder, in school, of his principal and assistant principal. [...]

By Joseph L. Giacalone, The Klaxon Another tragic university shooting tests another failure of the communication alert system. Are we ever going to get this right? At first glance, the shooting Friday at the University of Alabama in Huntsville does not appear to be the work of a mass murderer, but that of a college [...]